It's sad, I know. These chains are the reason we have so few and scattered choices now. I do my best not to set foot in the big chains, though like you there are times that it is pretty much unavoidable. I don't blame you a bit. We can only do what we can do.

I respect you and all your posts, Oldwookie, and will continue to. I even respect your opinion here, though I don't agree.

As should you, given that's all turokman2000 is doing as well.

The same claims were made about Bush among people who wanted it illegal, and Reagan. They were their hope, made all sorts of bold statements, until they got into office and really didn't give a crap any more than anyone else. It's the same with gun control, each side motivates their base with these issues, but at…

I think he embodies the era, really. He's obviously unable to wear the shoes of the previous generation, he questions too many things they took for granted. At the same time he doesn't fit in with the hip new culture, it seems like a sideshow to him. He's lost.

Am I the only one who blames the fact that you CAN reasonably buy everything there? I guess it is inevitable, but that doesn't make it an improvement. You can pretty much go years without stepping into any store other than Wal-Mart now (ugh, if you choose to), but at the same time you'd miss so much simply because…

Central heating and air conditioning I suppose, even in our means of transport. I guess the tights were warm if nothing else.

I agree with others that Don and Peggy make way more sense. Don might on the surface appear to be the kind of man Joan would like, but it doesn't really seem to me that the Don we know is at all. That's the facade we've been deconstructing for the entire series.

Perhaps you're dressing for the wrong aesthetic. With a wide brimmed hat, a jeweled goblet and a cane you could be the Beau Brummell of your next party. Foshizzle.

To answer the question in the article I think he'd say birth control promotes promiscuity, but I don't believe he'd call it murder so long as it prevented the initial fertilization and creation of the unborn child.

I think you sought out those words because of ignorance, but a different kind of ignorance. I am in no way espousing censorship, quite the contrary. I want you to hear the words and then see retort that exposes it in the most stark, contrasting way. Feel them turned upon yourself, understand what they really, truly…

But, like, the above poofy man pants and man stockings and such. Sure, they look silly, but I wonder why we think they do. After all, we thought disco to be silly for a while, and now we lean on that era so much in terms of fashion without great disdain.

Oh, I certainly can, at least I can certainly speculate that they do. Self-loathing is at the bottom of much of what makes us hate, and I'm sorry to say some men do hate men. Some men do hate women because of their own insecurity at being what they consider to be men. The man above is not only depicting the…

Because frankly nothing else works, as I said. We pretend the level of discourse is somehow lofty and intangible because that's how we think of art. It's much like "No Country for Old Men". People pretend they can tiptoe into disgusting horror and experience it vicariously, just dip a toe into misogynistic…

If they mean haute fashion, it has been nearly as silly quite often. Or maybe they foresaw the costumes for The Hunger Games or the next big Luc Besson space opera.

Kind of makes you wonder how people would react to the real thing, doesn't it? If we accept the first time we see zombies is a show, I wonder how many victims he'd have to attack before we realized. No doubt the first contact situation with would be a bloodbath.

1) Sometimes a wrong needs a contrasting wrong to make it visible when people have become so desensitized as to not even see it. Ever hear of "What's good for the goose"?

You don't seem to be following me. The pictures above are hurtful, and yet that's cool, because it is "art". It's INTENDED to make people uncomfortable. How convenient that the replies never do, that our criticisms of vile things are so comfortable, allowing us to gloss over the trash with pleasant ruminations.

Obviously it's sometimes hurtful when people make or write "challenging" things, "provoking" us in ways that make us uncomfortable, like, for instance, images brutalizing of Disney characters.

I'm not sure who you're arguing with, but it certainly isn't me. I'd have said much the same thing about an artist who portrayed the rape, murder, etc., of Disney princes. Prince or princess, this is obviously some masturbatory fantasy posed as art to make it socially acceptable.